Governments in West Africa and international aid agencies should help facilitate adoptions locally and provide better health care and education to support entire communities.

‘Millions of children in overseas orphanages … would dearly love to have parents’, claims Tony Abbott, and his government is making intercountry adoption easier.
Screenshot/Intercountry Adoption AustraliaMay 25, 2015

Following the earthquake in 2010, people flocked to Haiti to "rescue" orphaned and lost children. The problem that has since emerged is that many of the "orphans" placed in orphanages and sent for adoption, were not orphaned at all.

The number of orphanages in developing nations has dramatically increased in the past decade, driven by a fraudulent trade in ‘paper orphans’.
IHH Humanitarian Relief FoundationMarch 9, 2015